🚀 Exciting News from Vectara! 🚀 Today, we're thrilled to announce a groundbreaking innovation in GenAI: the Factual Consistency Score (FCS), powered by the upgraded HHEM – a pioneering step towards unparalleled transparency and control in AI responses. 🔗 Learn more about how we're transforming the AI landscape https://lnkd.in/gRtaVD54 #GenerativeAI #ResponsibleAI #AItransparency
Vectara
Software Development
Palo Alto, CA 8,403 followers
Vectara is The Trusted GenAI Platform for All Builders - Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service (RAGaaS).
About us
Vectara is The Trusted GenAI Platform for All Builders - Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service (RAGaaS) to Power Your Business - Put GenAI into Action. Vectara is an end-to-end platform for product builders to embed powerful generative AI features into their applications with extraordinary results. Built on a solid hybrid-search core, Vectara delivers the shortest path to a correct answer/action through a safe, secure, and trusted entry point. Vectara is a platform for companies with moderate to no AI experience that solves use cases, including conversational AI, question/answering, semantic app search, and research & analysis. Vectara provides an end-to-end SaaS solution abstracting the complex ML Operations pipeline (Extract, Encode, Index, Retrieve, Re-Rank, Summarize). Vectara is built for product managers and developers with an easily leveraged API that gives full access to the platform's powerful features. Vectara’s “Grounded Generation” allows businesses to quickly, safely, and affordably integrate best-in-class conversational AI and question-answering into their application with zero-shot precision. Vectara never trains on your data, allowing businesses to embed generative AI capabilities without the risk of data or privacy violations.
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https://vectara.com/
External link for Vectara
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
- Specialties
- Neural Search, Search as a Service, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Understanding, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Neural Information Retrieval, Deep Neural Networks, Neural Networks, LLM, NLU, NLP, Answer as a Service, NN, DNN, RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, semantic search, generative AI, GenAI, Grounded Generation, hybrid search, SaaS, Foundation Model, RAGaaS, and Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service
Products
GenAI Conversational Search & Discovery Platform
Enterprise Search Software
Vectara is a GenAI conversational search and discovery platform that allows businesses to have intelligent conversations utilizing their own data (think ChatGPT but for your data). Developer-first, the platform provides an easy-to-use API and gives developers access to cutting-edge NLU (Natural Language Understanding) technology with industry-leading relevance. The platform ensures data security and privacy with strong encryption while ensuring no customer data is used for training models. With Vectara’s Grounded Generation, businesses can quickly and affordably integrate best-in-class search and question answering into their application, knowledge base, website, chatbot, or support helpdesk. Visit Vectara.com for more information.
Locations
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Primary
395 Page Mill Road Ste 275
Palo Alto, CA 94306, US
Employees at Vectara
Updates
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Hallucinations in LLMs, where models generate non-factual content, pose a significant challenge in AI applications. At Vectara, we're committed to addressing this issue with advanced techniques. Our latest blog by Rogger Luo delves into: 1. Decoding Strategies: Exploring methods like Beam Search and DoLA to enhance factual accuracy. 2. Factuality Alignment: Using Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to fine-tune models for better factual consistency. 3. Post-Editing: Implementing approaches like FAVA for refining model outputs. These techniques are crucial for improving the reliability of LLMs. Ready to reduce hallucinations in your AI projects? Sign up for Vectara’s RAG-as-a-service platform today! 🚀 #AI https://lnkd.in/gZJfkk6p
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We've got some fantastic news to share: Vectara has joined the DataEngBytes 2024 tour as a Gold Sponsor! Vectara is an end-to-end platform for embedding powerful generative AI features into applications, ensuring data security and privacy. We’re excited to have them on board and can’t wait for you all to learn and connect with them during the conference. To learn more about Vectara, visit: https://lnkd.in/gvWNNuBg We truly appreciate their support towards our community. #deb2023
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Our CEO & Co-Founder, Amr Awadallah, will be speaking at the VDS Event on October 23 & 24 in Valencia! VDS2024, organized by Startup Valencia, returns for its seventh edition at the City of Arts and Sciences under the theme ‘Embracing evolution: Invest in the leaders of tomorrow.’ This event will highlight how technological innovation is transforming society. Amr will discuss how Vectara enables organizations to leverage Trusted GenAI by reducing risks like hallucinations, bias, and IP pollution. Join us to explore the future of technology and innovation! 🌐 https://vds.tech/ #VDS2024
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We've just released our updated guide on the top Large Language Models (LLMs) for Summer 2024! 🌟 Discover the best LLMs tailored to your needs, whether you're looking for API-accessible models, free chat interfaces, or self-hosted solutions. Dive into our guide! 🔗 https://bit.ly/3W3PZ8i
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Vectara reposted this
We've got some fantastic news to share: Vectara has joined the DataEngBytes 2024 tour as a Gold Sponsor! Vectara is an end-to-end platform for embedding powerful generative AI features into applications, ensuring data security and privacy. We’re excited to have them on board and can’t wait for you all to learn and connect with them during the conference. To learn more about Vectara, visit: https://lnkd.in/gvWNNuBg We truly appreciate their support towards our community. #deb2023
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Vectara will be at Australia's Largest Ecommerce Conference & Expo: Online Retailer 2024! 📅 Date: July 24th & 25th 📍 Location: ICC Sydney 📍 Stand: FL05 Meet our experts, Nidal Zoghbi, Head of Sales, and David Levy, Field Engineering Principal. Discover how Vectara enhances online retail with powerful GenAI features designed for all types of builders, ensuring efficient, accurate, and private data handling. Our generative AI platform elevates hybrid search and retrieval with advanced generative engines, focusing on privacy, accuracy, and seamless integration. Don’t miss out on unparalleled networking opportunities, brand exposure, and industry-leading content. Engage with expert solution providers and thousands of like-minded professionals driving a tech-led future for retail. See you there! https://lnkd.in/gNm95VR
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Hacker News is a hub for tech enthusiasts, but its search functionality has room for improvement. Our latest blog explores how Vectara's powerful GenAI platform can enhance the search experience on Hacker News, delivering more accurate and relevant results. Dive into our blog to see how Vectara's semantic search engine, with state-of-the-art embedding models and robust hybrid search, creates a superior search experience. We’ve built a demo to show you the difference: 👉 https://bit.ly/3W971BR 📖 Read the full blog and share your best Vectara use cases on our “built-with-vectara” Discord channel. https://bit.ly/3XQAMsu
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You can now watch Cerebral Valley New York for free from the comfort of your home! We've published all our talks on YouTube. We've rounded them up in two Newcomer posts: Here's the first half: https://lnkd.in/ezmhyMZ2 That post features videos with (1) Sridhar Ramaswamy at Snowflake, (2) Marco Argenti at Goldman Sachs, (3) Stephen Balaban at Lambda, Erik Bernhardsson at Modal, and Amr Awadallah at Vectara, (4) Grace Isford (5) Jonathan Frankle at Databricks, Ali Farhadi at Allen Institute for AI (AI2), and Laurens van der Maaten at Meta, (6) Anastasis Germanidis at Runway, (7) Mikey Shulman at Suno and Anna Veronika Dorogush at Recraft. Here's the second half: https://lnkd.in/eHgBeAJr That post features videos with (1) Eoghan McCabe at Intercom and Eric Glyman at Ramp, (2) Pat Grady at Sequoia, (3) Sarah Guo at Conviction, Vince Hankes at Thrive Capital, and Shardul Shah at Index Ventures, (4) Chase Lochmiller at Crusoe, (5) Scott Belsky at Adobe, (6) Teresa Carlson at General Catalyst and Josh Wolfe at Lux Capital, (7) Olivier Pomel at Datadog, (8) George Arison at Grindr
7 Videos from Cerebral Valley New York: Snowflake CEO, Lambda CEO, Goldman CIO, Runway CTO & More
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Amr Awadallah, CEO of Vectara was a featured speaker at the recent Cerebral Valley New York event! Watch one of the top conversations from the event, where Amr discusses the future of AI in the enterprise, highlighting the three major challenges: accuracy, security, and explainability. Catch his engaging discussion with Stephen Balaban and Erik Bernhardsson on the evolving landscape of generative AI. Read more about the other insightful talks from the event, including discussions with industry leaders from Snowflake, Goldman Sachs, and Runway from Madeline Renbarger and Eric Newcomer. https://lnkd.in/gAMev_qR https://lnkd.in/gD6z_mU7
7 Videos from Cerebral Valley New York: Snowflake CEO, Lambda CEO, Goldman CIO, Runway CTO & More
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